Since being on D'Adamo's diet almost exclusively, I've discovered that wheat slugs me out completely. I get painful headaches almost immediately, accompanied by a raw nasal lining and general itching all over. Plus, I get puffy.

After a few days, however, I then apparently slough off all the reactive swelling in my body through pretty intense diarrhea and gut pains. Then I'm fine, until I eat wheat again.

It's been a slow process for me, this coming to powerfully associate just the sight of wheat products with pain and misery, but it's happening, and that's a good thing. It will eventually lead to total avoidance of wheat products, just as I've had to learn with all dairy.

Within a half an hour, I get itchy hands, feet & ears or upper back. If I eat cheat more than once in a matter of days, I start getting cranky. Same goes for dairy. Like I'm looking down at myself thinking "What the heck are you so upset about?" and not able to rationalize it. It's almost always about food.

Ronagan does seem to have an idea that a lot of us non-secretors share, that grains in general are not very good for us. This may be different for A's; . . and AB's, . . well, you guys have your own unique universe! lol!! But O and B nonnies seem to go really light, or avoid completely, grains.

I agree with KK, vegetable carbs are in a different category, and while nonnies don't handle large amounts of carbs well, we do need vegetable-based carbs in order to be well balanced.

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.~Mary Jean Irion

Hi everyone. I am very new to this message sharing. Although I have been following the " Eat Right For Your Blood Type", for about 5 years, I just found this web site. I hope I am doing this right. I have been reading everyone's messages about wheat products and was floored by what everyone was saying. I was just trying to find out if food could be causing my return status to depression and realized that wheat could very well be the culprit. For the past couple of months I have not been following my right diet for O's. I have been eating a lot of foods that contain wheat. Over the past 5 years I have only suffered a return to depression a few times. Now when I think back, my depression always came about when I ate wheat products. I am so very glad I found this web site. Thank you. Also my breakfasts are made up of Rice Krispies, banana, soy beverage, and green tea. What I am not sure about is the Rice Krispies. I have checked the ingredience list and have found no mention of wheat. Does anyone know anything about Rice Krispies?

There's probably some kind of corn derivative in the Rice Krispies that could be causing you problems. Also, you would probably do much better with some kind of protein included with your breakfast. The banana would be fine - but add either an egg or beef along with that or even some almonds would probably be better than the Rice Krispies for you.

I seldom have time to do meat and veggies for breakfast - but that's what the best breakfast for O's really is - people here always say to think dinner for breakfast and you'll set you day up to go really well.